Correction: Disaster requests clarified

The Record is clarifying some information about recent storm disaster requests.
Previously, the Record had written that all of the following were under a single federal disaster request: the March 21 storm, and April 3-4’s flooding. The Record learned that some of our reporting on this was inaccurate, so this article will address these inaccuracies.
According to Mike O’Connell, communications director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, there are two incident periods the state was considering for federal assistance: the March 14-15 storms and the flooding and severe storms that began on March 30.
Governor Mike Kehoe released a statement on April 2 describing his request for a federal disaster declaration for the March 14-15 storms statewide. Laclede County is included in the request for FEMA Individual Assistance.
“Individual Assistance would allow eligible residents to seek federal assistance for temporary housing, housing repairs, replacement of damaged belongings, vehicles, and other qualifying expenses,” the release said.

In preparation for a request concerning March 30 flooding and severe storms preliminary joint assessments between local, state and federal teams began assessing damage for both public and individual assistance, according to press releases from Kehoe’s website.
A request has not been officially named for the March 30 flooding, and in the press releases from Kehoe, Laclede County was not listed in counties requested to have joint preliminary damage assessments for either individual or public assistance requests in Kehoe’s press statements from April 11 or 16, though they do say that more counties could be added as local information is received.
O'Connell confirmed that the March 21 storms are connected to neither the March 14-15 request nor the potential request for the March 30 storms and flooding.
We at the Record apologize for this inaccurate information being published and not properly verifying it from our source.
Going forward, we have been added to the media list of the Department of Public Safety, have an additional contact at the state level, and will endeavor to verify all information in our paper to ensure that it meets our standards of accuracy.

Note: O'Connell is the correct name for the DPS's  Communications Director, as noted in the first appearance of his name. "McConnell" refers to O'Connell and was missed during proofing earlier today.